The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

It seems that humans are about to start a new round of space exploration craze again.

On the Chinese side, for the first time, the timetable for building a Chinese space station was officially announced, as well as the timetable for manned lunar landing.

This is undoubtedly telling the world that China is serious about space exploration.

The United States restarted its moon landing program and launched a plan called "Return to the Moon", aiming to land humans on the moon again in 2010.

In Europe, the European Space Agency announced that it would launch a European manned space program in 2010 and that it would achieve a manned lunar landing in 2025.

Not to be outdone, the Russian Space Agency has announced a series of manned space missions and the goal of achieving a manned lunar landing by 2025.

Even Japan, whose national strength has declined severely, has proposed an ambitious space program.

It seemed as if the world was entering the space age all of a sudden.

Of course, there is one more thing, which is that Israel faces greater challenges in the Middle East.

Although the Seventh Middle East War has ended, frictions on the border have never stopped, with shooting today and bombing tomorrow.

In order to ensure security, Israel plans to build a border wall by constructing barbed wire to form a border wall, thereby ensuring the security of the border.

In addition, Israel began to build anti-tank trenches on its border defense line.

The Golan Heights, which Israel regards as a thorn in its side, seems to be unbreakable.

If there is one place that Israel considers the greatest danger, it must be the Golan Heights.

Then there is Syria’s SAM missile positions in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, which pose a huge threat to the Israeli Air Force.

These two places are simply thorns in Israel's side.

In addition, the country has a small land area and no strategic depth. Once a war breaks out, the flames will cover the entire Israel.

Netanyahu has cursed the stupid things that happened in the past more than once. In the fifth Middle East war, Israel should not have made concessions and formed a new border line. Otherwise, why would Israel be so passive now?

The Sixth and Seventh Middle East Wars were disastrous defeats for Israel, with heavy losses, each time greater than the previous one.

If it weren't for the United States' strong support, Israel would probably have really faced its end.

However, after this battle, Israel was no longer able to launch an attack for ten years.

At this time, the Golan Heights was undergoing massive construction.

With the help of all parties, the two sides reached a cooperation agreement.

Syria continues to supply water to Israel, while Israel pays for the water every year.

In addition, oil and natural gas extracted from the Golan Heights must also be allowed to be exported to Israel.

Before this, Israel had to import oil from other places, which was much more expensive. If it could obtain oil supply from the surrounding areas, then the cost of importing oil would undoubtedly be reduced a lot.

There is also water resources, which Israel also desires.

Although Israel can obtain fresh water by building desalination plants through desalination technology, the cost is too high.

At this time, large-scale construction began on the Golan Heights, and it was expected that oil production would officially begin two years later, in 2008.

Magic City, Yangshan Port.

Liu Tao and others came to Yangshan Port for inspection.

Last year, the cargo throughput of Yangshan Port reached 550 million TEUs. As the most important port in Shanghai, Yangshan Port mainly undertakes the business of ocean-going containers in the hinterland and international transit containers. It is also the largest container terminal in the world and has made great contributions to the development of the Yangtze River Delta. The investment in Yangshan Port and its supporting projects is huge.

After years of large-scale investment, the entire Modu Port has now become the largest port in the country, with an annual throughput that reaches a staggering figure.

The entire construction period of Yangshan Port will last until 2020, when the cargo throughput of Yangshan Port will reach 2500 million TEUs, or 4.375 million tons of cargo throughput.

There are a large number of transport vehicles going to and from Yangshan Port every day. Similarly, freight trains are also constantly going to and from Yangshan Port every day.

Currently, many people in Europe and the United States hope that China can open up more high-quality assets to the stock market.

These high-quality assets are not real estate companies or some other well-known listed companies, but port terminals, airports, railways, tobacco, oil and gas, communications, etc.

Everyone knows that the most profitable business in the world is the monopoly business.

In China, these are all in the hands of the government.

Even until now, industries involving the economic lifeline are all state-owned.

This is also why every time the government issues treasury bonds, it will have no trouble selling them.

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Because the Chinese government has enough assets to repay its debts.

Just like the Yangshan Port, many people initially thought that this was a losing business and that it would never be possible to recover the costs.

But now, no one says that anymore because it has become a premium asset.

Liu Tao and people from the Magic City government conducted research at Yangshan Port. Both Panshan Group and the Magic City government attached great importance to Yangshan Port.

Because this concerns the development of Shanghai, and it can even be said to be related to the development of the entire Changli Third Quarter.

There is currently a consensus that the development potential of the Yangtze River Delta is greater than that of the Pearl River Delta and Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan, and the current development speed of the Yangtze River Delta also reflects this point.

Of course, the development potential of the Pearl River Delta should not be underestimated.

The Pearl River Delta, Southwest China, and Beibu Gulf economic zones are all oriented towards ASEAN and South Asia.

China’s current strategic priority is clearly Southeast Asia, followed by South Asia!
Logically speaking, Northeast China should be the top priority, but Northeast Asia is more complicated and difficult.

As for Southeast Asia, ever since the ASEAN + China economic integration was decided and a timetable was given, which was 2010, all parties have been acting according to this timetable.

It can be said that the process of integration is accelerating.

The vast Nanyang has become a hot spot for Chinese people to venture into Nanyang, and it has also driven Chinese capital to Nanyang.

In order to ensure integrated development, the Nanyang countries are also constantly strengthening the construction of their military forces, especially the navy, so as to ensure regional stability and development.

After leaving Yangshan Port, Liu Tao flew directly to Zhoushan.

Zhoushan Archipelago is the largest archipelago in China, accounting for 20% of the total number of China's islands. It has a sea area of ​​22000 square kilometers, a land area of ​​1371 square kilometers, and an inland sea area of ​​2.08 square kilometers.

It is located at the intersection of China's eastern golden coastline and the Yangtze River's golden waterway. It is the main maritime gateway for the eastern coast and the Yangtze River basin to the world.

Panshan Group has invested heavily in Zhejiang Province, and the construction of ports is located in this area. A total of 19 port areas are planned to be built in the two cities, with more than 620 production berths planned to be built, including 170 large berths of 5 tons and above, and more than 100 large and extra-large deep-water berths of 5 tons and above. All of these will be completed in the next five years.

This place and Yangshan Port complement each other.

However, unlike Yangshan Port, which is a container port, this port is positioned as an iron ore transshipment base, crude oil transshipment base, liquid chemical storage and transportation base, and an important coal and grain storage and transportation base in East China. (End of this chapter)